Autonomous vs. Anonymous

Autonomous vs. Anonymous — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Autonomous and Anonymous

Autonomousadjective

Self-governing. Intelligent, sentient, self-aware, thinking, feeling, governing independently.

Anonymousadjective

(not comparable) Lacking a name; not named, for example an animal not assigned to any species.

Autonomousadjective

Acting on one's own or independently; of a child, acting without being governed by parental or guardian rules.

Anonymousadjective

(not comparable) Without any name acknowledged of a person responsible

an anonymous pamphlet; an anonymous subscription.anonymous author

Autonomousadjective

Used with no subject, indicating an unknown or unspecified agent; used in similar situations as the passive in English (the difference being that the theme in the English passive construction is the subject, while in the Celtic autonomous construction the theme is the object and there is no subject).

Anonymousadjective

(not comparable) Of unknown name; whose name is withheld

an anonymous author; an anonymous benefactor.The anonymous contributors of WikipediaNo customer personal data will be retained unless it is rendered anonymous.
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Autonomousadjective

of political bodies;

an autonomous judiciarya sovereign state

Anonymousadjective

Lacking individuality.

an anonymous office block in a soulless industrial estate''

Autonomousadjective

existing as an independent entity;

the partitioning of India created two separate and autonomous jute economies

Anonymousadjective

having no known name or identity or known source;

anonymous authorsanonymous donorsan anonymous gift

Autonomousadjective

of persons; free from external control and constraint in e.g. action and judgment

Anonymousadjective

not known or lacking marked individuality;

brown anonymous housesanonymous bureaucrats in the Civil Service
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